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That might be true, but where that line is is going to be in the eye of the beholder. I know people sometimes swear that D&D 4e wasn't D&D, but to me, it seemed to have all the defining features of that system other than fire-and-forget spells. I don't think serious reverse compability is...

You know that's almost the definition of a trade-off, right?

It isn't practicality because you aren't compelled to do it out of, well, practical factors (that tends to be things like "who lives close enough" or "who has a place we can play" at least for people who still want to play in person). And yes, I've done it; there was a player I GMed for for...

I have to point out that hard-line distinction doesn't apply to how people described them even 40 years ago, though, so I don't think you can specifically point at WOTC there. As noted, most BRP games have been fairly compatible with prior versions, but if they made significant changes they...

Its just easier for AI to do things that involve shuffling digital structures than physical ones, so that's what you're seeing first.

Well, I suspect this is effectively true, not in a broad sense, but in a "I don't want to play with people who have those preferences" sense. I suspect that applies to most people given some value of "set of preferences", this particular objection seems to be aimed at a rather large group and...

It isn't even always tech workers. My wife is the manager of a sales support department of her company, and during COVID a number of her staff moved out of state since they were doing work from home anyway; even though the department rule is now in-office-three-days-a-week some of them got...

Do you have some evidence, at least outside the D&D-adjacent sphere, that anyone else cares what they call an edition? I can't say the two most recent games I bought that were second editions called themselves anything but that; even Talislanta, which didn't continue the numeric progression...

I'll point out Umbran referenced that in the second sentence you quoted.

Because you want to play with specific people, perhaps for themselves, perhaps because you know they'll bring things to the game that curating them out would lose you. Even in the VTT days you don't have an infinite pool to access, and getting people who don't want things you might prefer not...

I have to note that with many groups the game is first however. This is sometimes even true with groups composed of closer friends, who do other things when the primary goal is socializing.

That's the alternate to dealing with trade-offs--curating the player group and GM combination. There are various reasons that's not always practical or desirable on other grounds, however.

On the other hand, the idea that there are many groups that play together for various reasons that have some conflicts about what they want in a game, and some of those conflicts require surrender of some of one party's enjoyment in those areas to the others shouldn't be that radical a concept...

I'm not sure about the lifting "most" is doing there, but I do know that in any context where one viewed that music in isolation, I suspect probably most people who like its style would consider it good to excellent. And its clearly serving its makers purposes, which seem artistic in part in...

I'm sorry, but that's just hyperbole, at least with ones that can be done without a support network. Plenty of people produce art, writing and music who don't make money at it. They might not do so as consistently as people who make a living at it, but art drives itself in many people.

Well, I agree with that; I just think assuming people are going to not carry expectations is the wrong way to get there. You either need to adjust things so their expectations and the system are in sync, get them to adjust their expectations, or accept they aren't going to work in the game...

Well, I think I'd argue that those both are going to set some of how players expect things to work, and if you want to steer around them for any reason, you're fighting against that impulse at least.

I suspect its going to be hard to compare the two, because they seem likely to (in most cases) attract very different audiences.

Well, I'd suggest it got ignored because some people don't agree with it. Once you start seeing nonhuman species as more analogous to ethnicities, well, the world is full of ethnicities, and there have been periods and areas where at least small numbers of a lot of them have intermixed...

I do not mean offense by this, but adults have trouble having adult conversations all the time. I have to say someone who has not seen that phenomenon has been extremely fortunate in the people they've interacted with.